Pope Francis greets choir members during his general audience in St. Peter’s Square in a file photo. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.) Listen Is contemporary Catholic church music “mediocre, superficial and ...
A woman prays during a Black History Month Mass of thanksgiving Feb. 28, 2021, at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in Brooklyn, N.Y. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) Lead me, guide me, along the way. For ...
The project’s founder and some recent participants discuss how ‘sacred music disposes our hearts and souls to encounter Christ in the sacred liturgy.’ Peter Carter directs a schola at Princeton ...
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Mary Anne Tupa has rarely skipped a beat in six decades of playing piano and organ during Sunday Mass at Grand Forks' Holy Family Catholic Church. The only time Tupa, 94, has taken a break from ...
When Jude Nnam wrote his first Mass in 1992, it was under the subconscious influence of a boyhood experience. In the mid-1970s, Nnam and two friends visited an Assemblies of God church in Enugu, the ...
Photo by Gianna Bonello via Unsplash. (RNS) — Protestant churches have always prided themselves on their preaching and music, especially non-Eucharistic churches that rely on the Bible alone to shape ...